and Britain, Spain and Bulgaria) nine votes (and no vetoes from the five permanent members) out of fifteen are required for the resolution's passage. and Britain's intense lobbying efforts among the other UN Security Council members yield only four supporters (in addition to the U.S. must strike first against another state to prevent a potential threat from growing into an actual one: "Our security will require all Americans? be ready for preemptive action when necessary to defend our liberty and to defend our lives. In some instances, the president asserts, the U.S. President Bush publicly introduces the new defense doctrine of preemption in a speech at West Point. The UN Security Council revamps the sanctions against Iraq, now eleven years old, replacing them with "smart sanctions" meant to allow more civilian goods to enter the country while at the same time more effectively restricting military and dual-use equipment (military and civilian). "will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons." Bush's state of the union speech, he identifies Iraq, along with Iran and North Korea, as an "axis of evil." He vows that the U.S.
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